2026-02-02
20 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
I'm Rosie Blau.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
How to nurture your child's genius appears to be a preoccupation of at least some parents.
Until now, the assumption was that after you push them out at birth, you just keep pushing.
A new study begs to differ.
And when the last two pandas on loan from China left Japan,
there was a great outpouring of emotion.
Pandemonium, you might call it.
But this is the arithmetic of panda diplomacy,
ever fewer as Sino-Japanese relations have become more tense.
First up though.
When the EU and India recently announced a long-awaited free trade deal,
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi called it his country's largest ever.
The European Commission's President Ursula von der Leyen reached Trumpian levels of bombast.
We did it.
We delivered the mother of all deals.
We are creating a market of two billion people.